Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Title | Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Maloney |
Publisher | Rodale |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2008-05-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 159486327X |
Identifies areas where progress for women is being compromised by proponents of conservatism and makes recommendations on how women can take steps to supporting true family values in their homes, workplaces, and communities.
Greatly Exaggerated
Title | Greatly Exaggerated PDF eBook |
Author | Marc Edge |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Newspaper publishing |
ISBN | 9781554201020 |
Pundits have long foretold the imminent death of print newspapers. These claims intensified with the rise of the internet and the recent financial crisis, but they've accompanied every media technological development of the past 100+ years: telegrams, radio, and television were all heralded as the final nail in the coffin, yet newspapers adapted and even thrived. And they're not going anywhere. In Greatly Exaggerated: The Myth of the Death of Newspapers, Marc Edge dives deep into the history and finances of North American newspapers and media conglomerates, and comes up with a surprising conclusion: the newspaper business is far more healthy and profitable than believed. It's been roiled by greedy Wall Street investors, the doctrine of media "convergence," and of course the internet, but has proved remarkably resilient in the face of it all. Greatly Exaggerated is a thoroughly informative and entertaining look at one of our most important institutions, essential reading for journalists and newspaper readers in Canada and the US. Read the Introduction from Greatly Exaggerated at MarcEdge.com.
Bombardier’s CRJ – Rumors of its Demise are Greatly Exaggerated
Title | Bombardier’s CRJ – Rumors of its Demise are Greatly Exaggerated PDF eBook |
Author | Ernest S Arvai |
Publisher | AirInsight |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2017-03-15 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1544721439 |
We conclude that the Bombardier CRJ program, considering the various equipment advances and technology improvements, remains an effective and credible regional jet option. The CRJ will certainly be effective through 2019, and if US scope clause size limits do not ease, will be effective through 2024. Rumors of its premature demise are therefore overstated.
All that Glittered
Title | All that Glittered PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Turner |
Publisher | Dutton Adult |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Stop in the name of love ... and of Motown, and read Tony Turner's dazzling insider's story -- updated with new material for the blockbuster 2000 Supremes tour!
A Manual for Creating Atheists
Title | A Manual for Creating Atheists PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Boghossian |
Publisher | Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA) |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2014-07-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1939578159 |
For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith—and are trained from an early age to spread their unique brand of religion. The result is a world broken in large part by unquestioned faith. As an urgently needed counter to this tried-and-true tradition of religious evangelism, A Manual for Creating Atheists offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith—but for talking them out of it. Peter Boghossian draws on the tools he has developed and used for more than 20 years as a philosopher and educator to teach how to engage the faithful in conversations that will help them value reason and rationality, cast doubt on their religious beliefs, mistrust their faith, abandon superstition and irrationality, and ultimately embrace reason.
Know Your Chances
Title | Know Your Chances PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Woloshin |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2008-11-30 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0520252225 |
Understanding risk -- Putting risk in perspective -- Risk charts : a way to get perspective -- Judging the benefit of a health intervention -- Not all benefits are equal : understand the outcome -- Consider the downsides -- Do the benefits outweight the downsides? -- Beware of exaggerated importance -- Beware of exaggerated certainty -- Who's behind the numbers?
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
Title | A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again PDF eBook |
Author | David Foster Wallace |
Publisher | Back Bay Books |
Pages | 549 |
Release | 2009-11-23 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 0316090522 |
These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest -- on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more -- established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly praised book -- a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner -- David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the bestselling Infinite Jest.